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Kitchen helper

  • Work Term: Permanent
  • Work Language: English
  • Hours: 40 hours per week
  • Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
  • Experience: Experience an asset

Tasks

  • Sanitize and wash dishes and other items by hand
  • Keep records of the quantities of food used
  • Package take-out food
  • Portion and wrap foods
  • Prepare, heat and finish simple food items
  • Use manual and electrical appliances to clean, peel, slice and trim foodstuffs
  • Clean and sanitize kitchen including work surfaces, cupboards, storage areas, appliances and equipment
  • Receive, unpack and store supplies in refrigerators, freezers, cupboards and other storage areas
  • Remove kitchen garbage and trash
  • Sharpen kitchen knives
  • Wash, peel and cut vegetables and fruit

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Fast-paced environment
  • Physically demanding
  • Repetitive tasks
  • Attention to detail

Personal suitability

  • Client focus
  • Efficient interpersonal skills
  • Reliability
  • Team player
  • Initiative
  • Dependability
  • Positive attitude

Employment terms options

  • Evening
  • Shift
  • Morning
  • On call

Employment terms options

  • Day
  • Weekend
  • Overtime available

Support for persons with disabilities

  • Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for persons with disabilities

Support for newcomers and refugees

  • Recruits newcomers and/or refugees who were displaced by a conflict or a natural disaster (for example: Ukraine, Afghanistan, etc.)
  • Provides diversity and cross-cultural trainings to create a welcoming work environment for newcomers and/or refugees

Support for youths

  • Offers on-the-job training tailored to youth
  • Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for youth

Support for Veterans

  • Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for Veterans

Support for Indigenous people

  • Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports Indigenous people
  • Provides cultural competency training and/or awareness training to all employees to create a welcoming work environment for Indigenous workers

Support for mature workers

  • Applies hiring policies that discourage age discrimination
  • Provides staff with awareness training to create a welcoming work environment for mature workers

Supports for visible minorities

  • Applies hiring policies that discourage discrimination against members of visible minorities (for example: anonymizing the hiring process, etc.)
  • Provides diversity and cross-cultural training to create a welcoming work environment for members of visible minorities